Pharaoh Mubarak, resting himself on the emergency law, says: “No, not enough.”
The Egyptian people, oppressed by the burden of the emergency law,” says: “Enough.”
Fahd Bahady is a Syrian cartoonist. This cartoon was published in his blog on 4 July 2010; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. The text above is an interpretation of the cartoon by Yoshie Furuhashi. Egypt has been under the emergency law since 1967 (except an 18-month period in 1980-1981). The state of emergency in Egypt was extended in May this year.
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